Introduction: Religious Authority and Religious Authorities in
Muslim Societies. A Critical Overview
Gudrun Krämer and Sabine Schmidtke
“This day have I perfected your religion for you”: A Ẓāhirī
Conception of Religious Authority
Camilla Adang
The Epistemology of Excellence: Sunni-Shiʿi Dialectics on
Legitimate Leadership
Asma Afsaruddin
The Relationship between Chief Qāḍī and Chief Dāʿī under the
Fatimids
Paul E. Walker
Forms and Functions of ‘Licences To Transmit’ (Ijāzas) in
18th-Century-Iran: ʿAbd Allāh al-Mūsawī al-Jazāʾirī al-Tustarī’s
(1112–73/1701–59) Ijāza Kabīra
Sabine Schmidtke
Asserting Religious Authority in late 19th/early 20th Century
Morocco: Muḥammad b. Jaʿfar al-Kattānī (d. 1927) and his Kitāb
Salwat al-Anās
Bettina Dennerlein
Consensus and Religious Authority in Modern Islam: The Discourses
of the ʿUlamāʾ
Muhammad Qasim Zaman
Drawing Boundaries: Yūsuf al-Qarḍāwī on Apostasy
Gudrun Krämer
A Doctrine in the Making? Velāyat-e faqīh in Post-Revolutionary
Iran
Katajun Amirpur
Religious Authority in Transnational Sufi Networks: Shaykh Nāẓim
al-Qubrusī al-Ḥaqqānī al-Naqshbanī
Annabelle Böttcher
The Modern Dede: Changing Parameters for Religious Authority in
Contemporary Turkish Alevism
Markus Dressler
Index
Gudrun Krämer is Professor of Islamic Studies at the Free
University, Berlin. She has published extensively on Middle Eastern
history, Islamic movements and Islamic political thought.
Sabine Schmidtke is Professor of Islamic Studies at the Free
University, Berlin. She has published extensively on Islamic and
Jewish intellectual history.
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